Is this really an internal / external distinction?

For a concrete example, Source.getBatch seems to be a public
interface, but returns DataFrame.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Tathagata Das
<tathagata.das1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> DataFrame is a type alias of Dataset[Row], so externally it seems like
> Dataset is the main type and DataFrame is a derivative type.
> However, internally, since everything is processed as Rows, everything uses
> DataFrames, Type classes used in a Dataset is internally converted to rows
> for processing. . Therefore internally DataFrame is like "main" type that is
> used.
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Cody Koeninger <c...@koeninger.org> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, meant DataFrame vs Dataset
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Cody Koeninger <c...@koeninger.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Is there a principled reason why sql.streaming.* and
>> > sql.execution.streaming.* are making extensive use of DataFrame
>> > instead of Datasource?
>> >
>> > Or is that just a holdover from code written before the move / type
>> > alias?
>>
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